CHAMBER News:
Friday, June 8 kicks off ChamberFest weekend, a community event showcasing Chamber of Commerce member merchants, businesses and organizations.
With food, live music, a car show, giant sand pile, bubble pit and other family entertainment, it will be a particularly entertaining day. ChamberFest runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 8 in downtown Los Alamos on Central Avenue between 15th and 20th streets and down Main Street to the roundabout. Chamber members invite the public to visit their booth and learn more about their businesses.
More than 55 businesses and organizations are participating from their storefronts or from one of the many booths around Central Park Square.
The weekend gets started at 7 p.m. Friday with the Los Alamos County Summer Concert series, featuring Warren Hood Band playing rock, country and blues on Central and Main. There will be a variety of entertainment staged throughout the downtown area Saturday. The Nomads will take the stage 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Central Avenue.
The popular gigantic sand pile sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank and Los Alamos County will form a mini-mountain on Central Avenue in front of CB FOX Department Store. Party to Go! will bring out a bubble pit, local vendors will come out to make festive summer foods and the classic car show will fill up the square with Corvettes, classics, hotrods and more.
A Chamber member-only thank you barbeque preceding the concert is Friday night. Tickets are required and are available through the Chamber of Commerce, 109 Central Park Square or online at http://www.fyila.com. The dinner will feature a drawing for $400 worth of chamber checks.
For more information about the Chamber or Chamberfest weekend, call Suzette Fox at 661-4844 or visit the Chamber website at www.losalamoschamber.com.
